28-Year-Old Stabs 61-Year-Old Roommate, Hides Him In Closet: MNPD

NASHVILLE, TN -- A bizarre crime scene and a "brutal" stabbing led to the arrest of a 28-year-old East Nashville man Monday, charged with killing his 61-year-old roommate.

Friends of 61-year-old Alan Edwards received strange text messages from his phone Sunday, so get went to the Barclay Drive home he shared with 28-year-old Clint Osborn to check on him. Osborn let them in the house and admitted to sending the odd messages, according to police. Edwards' friends also noticed that the sheets had been stripped from Edwards' bed and then called police.

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After no one answered the door, the responding officers forced their way inside and found Osborn and a woman and reportedly spotted blood in the home and smelled "the odor of decomposition." Osborn and the woman were detained, detectives were called and a warrant obtained, according to MNPD, and the detectives found Edwards' body in a basement closet stuffed in a large plastic container which had been duct taped closed. Edwards had been "brutally stabbed," according to detectives.

Osborn is charged with criminal homicide.

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